Blog and Bio Page

bradpowellphoto

Can anyone point me to instructions for putting a blog and bio page in the new customization please?

denisegoldberg

bradpowellphoto wrote: »

Can anyone point me to instructions for putting a blog and bio page in the new customization please?

For a bio page you can create a page (as opposed to a gallery). If you look at my site, the Kaleidoscope, Gallery, and About links on the navbar all open pages.

Blog - there isn't a blog, but depending on how many blog entries you write you could use a page as a blog. Michael Bonocore uses pages for his blog entries - http://www.mb-photography-sf.com/Blog.

I still have my blog in blogger. It matched the look of my old site; today I changed it to match the look of my new site. Links to my unveiled smug site and blog are below.

--- Denise

bradpowellphoto

Thx Denise!

canderson1229

denisegoldberg wrote: »

For a bio page you can create a page (as opposed to a gallery). If you look at my site, the Kaleidoscope, Gallery, and About links on the navbar all open pages.

Blog - there isn't a blog, but depending on how many blog entries you write you could use a page as a blog. Michael Bonocore uses pages for his blog entries - http://www.mb-photography-sf.com/Blog.

I still have my blog in blogger. It matched the look of my old site; today I changed it to match the look of my new site. Links to my unveiled smug site and blog are below.

--- Denise

Denise, I'm going to give Michaels blog page a shot, since I'm not a big blogger just more for content. How is he doing that? Creating a page and adding images then connecting to a page?? Or is it a page then connected in some other way?

denisegoldberg

canderson1229 wrote: »

Denise, I'm going to give Michaels blog page a shot, since I'm not a big blogger just more for content. How is he doing that? Creating a page and adding images then connecting to a page?? Or is it a page then connected in some other way?

Connie -
I believe Michael's blog entry links to a page that contains other pages. The pages within that blog page are pages containing text and photos.

--- Denise

canderson1229

denisegoldberg wrote: »

Connie -
I believe Michael's blog entry links to a page that contains other pages. The pages within that blog page are pages containing text and photos.

--- Denise

Thanks Denise, yes playing with it and seeing that now, but can't figure out how to get those separate blog pages on the main blog page.

denisegoldberg

canderson1229 wrote: »

Thanks Denise, yes playing with it and seeing that now, but can't figure out how to get those separate blog pages on the main blog page.

Each blog entry will need to be a separate page containing text and photos. Then the top level blog page will need to include the individual blog pages.

I just created a test page. For the content on the page I selected Navigation... Pages. I was then able to select other pages to show on the page that I was building. You will want to select an image to represent each page so you'll have images on the page you'll be referencing as your blog.

--- Denise

canderson1229

denisegoldberg wrote: »

Each blog entry will need to be a separate page containing text and photos. Then the top level blog page will need to include the individual blog pages.

I just created a test page. For the content on the page I selected Navigation... Pages. I was then able to select other pages to show on the page that I was building. You will want to select an image to represent each page so you'll have images on the page you'll be referencing as your blog.

--- Denise

Ahhh! thanks, I think the Navigation page is the answer! Thanks so much!

ko04

To add to this if you already started a blog there is a "Feed" block you can use which is what I am going to be using when I unveil. Its supper easy to use and this way you can intergrade say a blog you've already started right onto your site. I was having a really hard time trying to figure out what code to use for the Smugmug Templet Nav Bar so I decided to use a "Feed" block instead and it works just fine.

denisegoldberg

ko04 wrote: »

To add to this if you already started a blog there is a "Feed" block you can use which is what I am going to be using when I unveil. Its supper easy to use and this way you can intergrade say a blog you've already started right onto your site. I was having a really hard time trying to figure out what code to use for the Smugmug Templet Nav Bar so I decided to use a "Feed" block instead and it works just fine.

Keep in mind that a feed is just that - your posts in date order. If you would like folks to be able to go back to previous posts based on labels or on dates they will still need to go to your blog.

--- Denise

ko04

denisegoldberg wrote: »

Keep in mind that a feed is just that - your posts in date order. If you would like folks to be able to go back to previous posts based on labels or on dates they will still need to go to your blog.

--- Denise

Good to know Denise, you always have great insight. I will keep that in mind I'm working on getting a custom nav bar with my own coding so If I get that then I will have no problem matching my code since I've done that before. Anyways thanks again for the insight!